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On December 9, 2016, a reporter Michael Bodley for the SFChronicle filed a story titled “SF city attorney defends police who shot homeless man.” Please note that Bodley did not reach out to the family of the victim Luis Góngora Pat, the family’s lawyer Adante Pointer, nor members of the Justice & Honor for Luis…

On November 3, 2016, the family lawyer Adante Pointer in the presence of his clients, the wife and children of Luis Góngora Pat, held a press conference in Mérida, Yucatán. In attendance were also members of the Coalition who had visited the family for Hanal Pixan (nov. 1) and Day of the Dead (nov. 2)…

Today, on the 6th month anniversary of the killing of Luis Demetrio Góngora Pat, his widow and children have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against his killers, SFPD Sergeant Nate Steger and Officer Michael Mellone. At a press conference today at the site of his killing, the family’s attorney Adante Pointer presented the findings…

The Guardian, Homeless man’s killing by police ‘like a gangster movie’, family claims, (June 17, 2016) Attorneys for the Góngora family presented video and photographic evidence that they say shows that police officers shot Góngora from above, while he was either sitting down or lying prone. Photographs from a private autopsy show that Góngora was…

In the aftermath of the Luis Góngora Pat shooting, who is involved? An aid created to increase community understanding of what happened after Luis Demetrio Góngora Pat, a Mayan-Mexican citizen, was killed by San Francisco Police Department officers. Powerpoint presentation: Complexity in LuisGongoraCase